tiny font in raspbmc

[nitrofreak06]

Hey guys i've been trying to get the text a little more larger for the Pi.

I'm using the Raspbmc os on a v2 pi.

The size of my monitor is a 7 inch lcd. And the text is just really tiny.

I've tried editing files that i've seen others doing. But the files just arn't showing up.

I'm using my windows 8 Acer netbook that has as sd card reader. Using a linux file browser. I see lots of files but the .xmls doesn't show up in the search.

I'm not sure what else to do. I'm working a car pc for my car and i would love to make the text more easily readable. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

[henkg]

Edit console-setup (in /etc/default) to something like:

FONTFACE=”Terminus”
FONTSIZE=”32x16”

(or even "40x20")
You need to reboot. after that, the effect will be visible halfway the booting process.

[nitrofreak06]

ive tried editing the file but made no changes.

i ended up having to figure out how to ssh into the Pi. and i changed the font size in the Font.xml file.

and that was the best way i could get the results i wanted.

[DirkS]

It's probably better to ask this question in the raspbmc forum at http://forum.stmlabs.com/

Gr.
Dirk

[nitrofreak06]

oh. yah thats where i seen someone else trying to do something similar and it worked for me to.

also, for future reference this is how i changed the file size.

sudo nano .xbmc-current/xbmc-bin/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/Font.xml


then i just added 10 to the current font size of everything in the arial portion of the code. and looks pretty well on the little 7" lcd.

This is going to be a great little pc for my project!